The Launch For ‘On Christmas Day’
I am thrilled to announce that Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston on Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm.
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The Gentle Author picks up the threads of Christmas fiction from Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas and George Mackay Brown to weave a compelling tale of family conflicts ignited and resolved in the festive season.
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“Over successive Christmases, as I was growing up, I witnessed the disintegration of my family until today I am the lone survivor of the entire clan, the custodian, charged with carrying the legacy of all their stories. Where once I was the innocent child in the midst of a family drama unknown to me, now I am a sober adult haunted by equivocal memories of a conflict that only met its resolution in death. Yet in spite of this, whenever I examine the piles of old photographs of happy, smiling people which are now the slim evidence of the existence of those generations which precede me, I cannot resist tender feelings towards them all.”
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A very enjoyable read. Your Grandmother in a fur coat, smoking a cigarette, cooking the Christmas dinner reminded me of a pantomime dame, when in fact she was really the evil queen.
What glorious news!
I’ll put in my order for two CDs of Mr. Pryce’s reading of “On Christmas Day.”
I’m sorry an ocean and other things keep me from attending the joyous event–it would have been a lovely belated (Nov. 22) birthday gift to myself.
Looking forward to receiving my copies of your publication.
Only wish I could be there but I have received the lovely book and it’s on my bedside table.
Very pleased to buy a copy for my daughter as a Christmas present. Right up her alley. Cannot wait to see it.